On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> OK, here is what I'll queue then.
> I assumed that René wants to sign it off ;-).
> 
> -- >8 --
> From: René Scharfe <l....@web.de>
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:57:30 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] hex: make wraparound of the index into ring-buffer explicit
> 
> Overflow is defined for unsigned integers, but not for signed ones.
> 
> We could make the ring-buffer index in sha1_to_hex() and
> get_pathname() unsigned to be on the safe side to resolve this, but
> let's make it explicit that we are wrapping around at whatever the
> number of elements the ring-buffer has.  The compiler is smart enough
> to turn modulus into bitmask for these codepaths that use
> ring-buffers of a size that is a power of 2.

Looks good to me.

> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> index fe3c4d96c6..9bfaeda207 100644
> --- a/path.c
> +++ b/path.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ static struct strbuf *get_pathname(void)
>               STRBUF_INIT, STRBUF_INIT, STRBUF_INIT, STRBUF_INIT
>       };
>       static int index;
> -     struct strbuf *sb = &pathname_array[3 & ++index];
> +     struct strbuf *sb = &pathname_array[index];
> +     index = (index + 1) % ARRAY_SIZE(pathname_array);
>       strbuf_reset(sb);
>       return sb;

This converts the pre-increment to a post-increment, but I don't think
it matters.

-Peff

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